How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts
Date Written:  2011-05-29
Publisher:  The Observer, United Kingdom
Year Published:  2011
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12645

When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.

Subject Headings

• Apartheid
• Ecosystems
• Holism